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5 unusual facts about Cats & Dogs


Cats and Dogs

Cats & Dogs is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman.

Coyote Falls

It is the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner movie to be made into CGI in 3D (the first 3-D WB cartoon since 1954's Lumber Jack-Rabbit) and it was released with Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Guillermo Fesser

As Gomaespuma, with Cano, he has given his voice to many cartoon characters in children features as Chicken Run, Quest For Camelot, Cats & Dogs, and Chicken Run 2, and he has adapted and dubbed into Spanish some other films as the one from Sacha Baron Cohen Ali G Indahouse .

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

This makes Legend of the Guardians Zach Snyder's first film not to reach No. 1 on its opening weekend in the US; overall a disappointing start, only earning a fraction of this year's animation line-up and more in line with Warner Bros. other 2010 family films Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore and Yogi Bear.

Mid Ulster Film Festival

Since its inception, the festival has aimed to reflect the cultural, visual and narrative diversity of both international and Irish independent filmmakers through its consistently strong and exciting programming, including feature films, such as Cinema Paradiso, Nobody’s Fool, starring Paul Newman, Jean de Florette, late night film 8.5 Hours and a Saturday matinée, Cats & Dogs.


Amblimation

A project to adapt the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats was in the making, but was abandoned with the studio's closure.

Angela Richards

A graduate of RADA, Richards is also well known for her body of work in musical theatre, having starred in several West End productions such as Robert and Elizabeth (her debut in 1964), Cats (following Elaine Paige as Grizabella), High Society, Blood Brothers, Cole and Liza of Lambeth.

Bowie Wong

Whilst finishing his degree in Canada, Bowie was offered contracts on major theatre productions and international shows including The Paul McCartney World Tour and productions of the musicals Cats and Les Misérables.

Carl Schmehl

Schmehl has assisted Broadway director and choreographer Gillian Lynne -- choreographer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- on new productions in New York, San Diego, London and Vienna.

Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Since opening its doors in January 1992 with three sold-out performances of Cats, the Phillips Center has hosted performers as diverse as Tony Bennett, Itzhak Perlman, Riverdance, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Ray Charles, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Alison Krauss, Stomp, Yo-Yo Ma, David Sedaris, Bolshoi Ballet, Wynton Marsalis, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Capitol Steps.

Dan Staley

After Cheers ended its run, Staley went on to create numerous pilots and several series including George and Leo, Love & Money and Men, Women & Dogs.

David Guido Pietroni

More than 170 shows, a world preview and thirty national first performances, among which the performances of the musical Cats in the original edition by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Italian debuts of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Lorin Maazel and co-produced by the Toscanini Symphonic Orchestra, and Peter Stein's interpretation of Faust.

Doug Haining

He has performed professionally since 1974, backing national artists such as Steve Allen, Don Rickles, Bob Hope, and others, and Broadway shows such as West Side Story, Cats, A Chorus Line and many others.

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

In 2005 the Academy was selected by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization to be the first high school in the United States to perform the long-running Broadway Musical Cats.

Iselin Alme

Among the productions she has taken part in are Godspell, A Chorus Line, Cats and Oklahoma, as well as Ionesco's La Leçon at Riksteatret.

Jellicle cats

Jellicle cats, or simply the Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T.S. Elliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and in Cats, a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book.

Jo Gibb

Jo Gibb (born JoAnn Gibb on 18 April 1976, in Bo'ness, Scotland, UK) is a Scottish theatre actress best known for her role of Rumpleteazer in the Cats video and as Pearl the Observation Car in Starlight Express.

Joel Fram

He has conducted the Broadway productions of Wicked, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, James Joyce's The Dead, Jumpers, and Cats.

Linda Balgord

Linda Balgord is an award winning American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 United States tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Sunset Boulevard, being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of Cats and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I in The Pirate Queen on Broadway.

Mark Chisholm

The following season he moved to the Brumbies and made his Super 12 debut for the side that season in a game against the Cats in Johannesburg as a replacement, he went on to play in six more matches that season.

Munkustrap

Michael Gruber, an alumnus of the Broadway production, was chosen to play Munkustrap in the 1998 Cats movie.

Myrra Malmberg

Early on she took on roles such as "Maria" in West Side Story, "Hodel" in Fiddler on the Roof and "Jemima" in Cats, but also straight acting roles such as "Poppy" in Noises Off.

Natalie Mendoza

She performed in many musicals such as Cats the Musical, Miss Saigon, The Music of Lloyd Webber Concert Tour (understudying Sarah Brightman), Oh What A Night, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as the lead Frugue girl in Sweet Charity, and took the role of Eponine in the 10th Anniversary Australasian Tour of Les Miserables.

Nico Marlet

He also worked on an unproduced animated version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats.

Phyllida Crowley Smith

Theatre credits include Heathcliff, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (playing the role of Victoria the White Cat), Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Phantom of the Opera.

Scott Sherrin

His subsequent career included a number of other stage and television productions: Cats, Fame, Five Guys Named Moe, From the Top, Ragtime, and appeared on the Royal Variety Performance.

The Catillac Cats

His name may be a tribute to the movie character, or perhaps was influenced by the name of Mungojerrie in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.


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